Resisting the Clockwork of Occupation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20106181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uzma Falak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 69-85 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00138282-10782088 |
| OpenAlex | W4388018346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Despite its centrality as a locus of both occupation and resistance in Kashmir, the inquiry into time has received scant academic attention. This essay undertakes two lines of inquiry. First, it attempts to foreground the temporal extraction integral to the Indian state’s matrix of control, arguing that its military occupation and settler-colonial project in Kashmir operates not only through the logics of spatial control but also through a control over time. The state has not only tried to erase people out of their own futures but also weaponized the idea of future itself—as a site of a permanent and multimodal extraction. Second, Kashmir’s liberation praxis is anchored on a rejection of an occupational and settler-colonial temporal order and, through two ethnographic fragments, this essay explores enactments of alternate temporal imaginaries and consciousness and foregrounds multiple registers of “in-betweenness” within this imaginary. The essay redirects attention from future as an event or a discrete unit of time, and from its not-yetness, toward the intimate and everyday articulations and enactments of future—a complex ongoing process of becoming and unbecoming unfolding in the everyday. Thus the essay calls for reimagining “ruptures”—instead of “futures”—as a locus of liberation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Betweenness centrality · Centrality · Colonialism · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Futures contract · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Time and the Other
Dreams That Matter
Religion, Armed Conflict and the Quest for "Secular" - Mapping Martyrdom in Kashmir
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
Politics of Piety
Formations of the Secular
Decolonizing [in the] future
Maps and mother goddesses in modern India
Cartographic Anxiety
Imagined communities
Frames of war
Worldless futures
Dark Ages and Bright Futures
Religious Reason and Secular Affect
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |